The following states and territories rose in trend terms in June 2011: Victoria (0.5%), Queensland (0.5%), Western Australia (0.6%) and the Northern Territory (0.1%). Tasmania (0.0%) was relatively unchanged. New South Wales (-0.4%), South Australia (-0.4%) and the Australian Capital Territory (-0.6%) fell in trend terms in June 2011.

VOLUME MEASURES

In volume terms, the trend estimate for Australian turnover rose 0.1% in the June quarter 2011.

NOTES

FORTHCOMING ISSUES

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1 September 2011

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5 October 2011

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3 November 2011

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CHANGES IN THIS ISSUE

There are no changes in this issue.

REVISIONS

The price deflators for Food retailing have been revised for March quarter 2011. This has resulted in revisions to the chain volume estimates for Food retailing in original and seasonally adjusted terms.

Revisions to other seasonally adjusted estimates are due to the concurrent methodology for deriving seasonal factors.

TIME SERIES DATA

Data available from the Downloads tab of this issue on the ABS website include longer time series of tables in this publication, the quarterly chain volume measures and the following additional current price monthly series:

Retail turnover by state and 15 industry subgroups in trend, seasonally adjusted and original terms

Retail turnover completely enumerated and sample sector, by six industry groups in original terms

Retail turnover completely enumerated and sample sector, by state in original terms